State GOP policies portend a disturbing future

In a recent piece, Sen. Phil Berger, president pro-tem of the N.C. Senate stated that the broadening the sales tax would be a progressive move as a start in reforming the state tax code. Only the warped thinking of our current Republican legislators seeking to change the tax code to reward the wealthy and well-to-do at the expense of the poor and most needy of our neighbors would call a sales tax progressive! An increase in the sales tax would be highly regressive; the burden would negatively impact low-income families who would be forced to spend more of their meager income on the basic necessities of food and clothing.

I cannot wait to see what other “progressive” policies might be forthcoming from this Republican-dominated General Assembly. Unfortunately, I’m afraid that I do know and it is not pretty!